Getting Rich Overnight, One Thousand Cores!

Getting Rich Overnight, One Thousand Cores!

"For the exchange, use cores to trade for the information you want to know."

"Cores of any attribute will do. Depending on how many cores you offer, I'll answer that much."

The woman immediately asked, "Wouldn't that make it impossible to ensure fairness?"

"Fairness?"

The girl beside her snickered. "I can only guarantee that if you provide enough cores, I'll answer every question you ask and won't lie. That's my integrity as a trader."

"But how much I answer depends on my mood. So there's no such thing as fairness or unfairness—only whether I'm in a good mood or a bad one. So? Are we continuing?"

If everything were absolutely fair, how was she supposed to fleece them? She wasn't an idiot. She was going to become a core capitalist!

"Fine." The woman nodded. "The cores are on their way. We've changed direction and are meeting up with the person delivering them. We'll arrive within six minutes."

Decisive indeed.

Less than six minutes later, the car stopped in an underground parking garage. Another vehicle pulled up beside them at the same time. Someone got out and handed the woman a black briefcase. She returned to the car, looked at Xu Zhi, and asked, "With one hundred cores, how many questions can you answer?"

Xu Zhi openly looked disdainful and raised one finger with her right hand. "One."

What was this supposed to be? Such a huge Federation, such an official organization, and they opened with just one hundred cores?

Even though Xu Zhi had never possessed a hundred cores at once, that didn't stop her from instinctively thinking they were stingy.

And knowing they were deliberately probing her, Xu Zhi added, "Consider this a first-time trading bonus. This time, I'll only charge one hundred cores. If the next question still comes with this little, I don't think there'll be any need to continue."

"So, what do you want to ask for your first question?"

The car fell silent for several seconds. Then, after receiving some instruction, the woman asked, "Other than you, can anyone else leave the city?"

How insidious!

Xu Zhi inwardly screamed, How insidious!

Answering this question would mean answering other hidden questions at the same time. Whether the answer was yes or no, they would achieve their objective. Even if she directly turned hostile and refused to answer, that itself would be an answer of sorts.

But it didn't matter.

It seemed the Special Investigations Office had already inferred from the Spirit Vessel's appearance that she might be Xu Zhi from Cloud City.

She had never intended to hide that anyway.

"Give me the cores first." The girl held out her hand. The woman did not waste time and handed her a small black bag.

As soon as Xu Zhi took the bag, she stuffed it into her jacket pocket. But the moment her pocket concealed her hand, the cores had already been transferred into her inventory.

And sure enough, the inventory showed one hundred additional cores.

Seeing how straightforward they were, Xu Zhi answered just as straightforwardly, "No."

When her words fell, the woman beside her remained outwardly calm, but inwardly she was somewhat surprised. She had thought the girl would directly refuse such an obvious trap of a question. She hadn't expected her to actually answer it.

What was she thinking?

"For the next question, how many cores are you planning to offer?" Xu Zhi asked directly.

Anyway, as far as she knew, there were none. Her answer had been perfectly honest. At most, she had merely omitted the phrase "as far as I know," since they had only paid one hundred cores.

Besides, no one else had a game console cheat like hers. It would probably be impossible for anyone to truly leave Cloud City through supernatural abilities for quite a long time.

"Why don't we ask our question first, and then you name your price in cores?" the woman suddenly asked.

So full of tricks.

"Sure." Xu Zhi nodded unconcernedly. As long as they weren't afraid of her demanding an exorbitant price, she was more than happy to set the price herself.

"Then the question is?"

"Are there many people in Cloud City who are still alive and haven't become insane?" the woman asked slowly.

At first glance, this question seemed to be about concern for the citizens, but it was not.

Xu Zhi felt that the Special Investigations Office must have noticed something. It might be related to their insistence on entering Cloud City. Now, they were using this question to probe and confirm something.

"One thousand cores." The girl decisively named a sky-high price.

The woman's eye twitched. She truly hadn't expected Xu Zhi to multiply the price by ten without hesitation!

"This question isn't worth that much!" she retorted after receiving instructions through her earpiece.

Xu Zhi merely looked at her coldly. "Is that so? But I know that the answer to this question is worth far more than one thousand to you."

"But we already have a fairly certain guess about the answer. This is a question with an answer we largely know; we only want further confirmation. One thousand really exceeds the value of the question. If you insist, we'll give up."

They couldn't even bear to pay one thousand?

Xu Zhi was a little speechless. But on second thought, supernatural beings outside also needed cores. With their greater numbers, their demand was even more massive. One thousand cores really was no small amount in the early stages. Using them merely to confirm something they had already determined did warrant consideration.

"Fine, then half off. Five hundred."

Xu Zhi felt that although she was practically giving it away for free, she was really taking a huge loss here.

The woman fell silent for quite a while. The people on the other end of the earpiece apparently argued intensely over whether to spend five hundred on it. They still had many questions to ask afterward—was it truly necessary right now?

But in the end, the woman nodded. "All right."

She took out five black bags and handed them to Xu Zhi. "Five hundred cores."

Xu Zhi accepted them, placed them into her inventory, and confirmed there were five hundred before saying, "I think there are quite a lot of survivors."

Judging from the scenes Xiao Zhen saw while flying overhead every day, there were indeed far more living people in Cloud City than Xu Zhi had estimated. At first, she had thought the city would become a complete dead city in less than a month, but unexpectedly—

Quite a few people who had retained their sanity had survived, and some had even become supernatural beings.

Without question, what they truly wanted to confirm by asking this was whether there were many new supernatural beings in Cloud City.

Those who were not supernatural beings, merely ordinary people, simply could not survive in that city.

After hearing Xu Zhi's answer, the woman nodded calmly. Xu Zhi could not be sure whether she understood what this answer meant to the higher-ups of the Special Investigations Office, but the twenty minutes were almost up. She was about to "die" in front of this woman again.

"The third question." After roughly half a minute of silence, the woman said, "We want to know whether the woman named Zhong Lingfan, who lives in Nanshan Villa District, has finished her latest research report on supernatural beings."

A probe. Another probe. Nothing but probes.

Since they could identify Xu Zhi from the Spirit Vessel's appearance, they naturally knew where Xu Zhi lived. Specifically mentioning Nanshan Villa District was meant to test whether Xu Zhi had the ability to move through Cloud City.

And without asking Zhong Lingfan herself, Xu Zhi could not just make up an answer to this question.

Who knew whether there was even someone named Zhong Lingfan? Was she dead or alive? Was the research report on supernatural beings real or fake?

She could only know for sure after finding her.

In the end, this was another test of her abilities.

But the thing Xu Zhi feared least was this kind of probing.

She smiled and said casually, "Sure, but for this question, I'm charging one thousand cores. No bargaining."

The woman nodded decisively as well. The people on the other end of the earpiece had probably already instructed her.

"However, we'll stop here for today. Your probing is too annoying. I've decided to end this early. We can trade over this question next time."

After Xu Zhi spoke, the woman hurriedly asked, "When will next time be? How about we set a time?"

"Who knows? Maybe when I'm in a better mood?"

As soon as the girl's airy words fell, her body went limp and her head drooped. Then she dissipated like ashes.